About the position

LDF Sales & Distributing, Inc. is looking for Dynamic Employees to join the LDF Warehouse Team on our Second Shift - Full Time, Monday -Thursday and possible Friday afternoons. This is an entry-level, training role to achieve Warehouse Material Handler II within 18 months. The Material Handler 1 role will provide sales support and customer service by working with the warehouse team for outbound operations. Participates in continuous improvement objectives.

Responsibilities

• Learn all LDF warehouse standard practices and is responsible to assist manager with enforcement of those practices.
• Achieve productivity standards to meet operational budgets.
• Achieve critical operational timing to meet customer and internal needs.
• Demonstrates ability to comprehend and perform at target level in basic warehouse tasks including but not limited to: receiving, storage and order fulfillment.
• Exhibits competency of work practices to allow operational flexibility. This includes competency in basic shift-specific tasks as detailed by skills matrix and supervisor requirement.
• Interface with external contacts professionally to satisfy customers, carriers and contractors.
• Ensures all OSHA safety regulations, local regulations and company safety rules are observed. Drive safety in work behaviors.
• Ensures quality through limiting internal damage of product, proper loading and unloading of product to prevent damage at warehouse, route and customer.
• Demonstrates competency in assigned operational functions of WMS systems. Current systems include VIP and CirrusTech.
• Ensures proper product rotation and segregation using FIFO methods by leveraging WMS and manual monitoring.
• Deliver inventory accuracy through proper WMS and manual methods. Meets objectives for net shrink, absolute shrink and location accuracy.
• Assures a clean work space leveraging visual management, 5S and warehouse certification.
• Regularly inspect facility and equipment for operational readiness, escalates or resolves issues as identified.
• Completes other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Must be 18 or older
• Flexibility to perform various roles within a single shift.
• Demonstrates competent skills in shift-specific operations and forklift operation.
• Basic PC skills to perform tasks in WMS systems.
• Proficient verbal and written communication skills.
• Understands company policies, procedures and operations.
• Completes company training programs.
• Has ability to communicate with peers and leadership and articulate problems or questions to the appropriate personnel.
• Must exhibit comprehension of basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in all units of measure using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.
• Has ability to read and follow directions from standard work instructions.
• Ability to conceptualize the placement of a certain number of items on rack, pallets or carts.
• Basic decision making.
• Forklift certified.

Nice-to-haves

• Prefer minimum 6 months warehouse operations and high school diploma/GED.

Benefits

• Paid Time Off - 80 hours of PTO before your 1st Anniversary!
• PTO continues to increase based on tenure.
• Secure & Stable employment w/Bi-weekly pay
• Full benefits package to include retirement plan & tuition reimbursement.
• Monthly bonuses & incentives
• EAC – Employee Activity Committee (community involvement & employee activities/outings)
• Uniforms provided.